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Nice. I may purchase The Beast of Graenseskov, too. Edited for update: I bought The Beast of Graenseskov last night and am reading through it.

Thanks for the referral. I've been adapting a short story to an adventure format. It's a murder mystery. I have become concerned that the adventure is "too talky" and will require too much prep. Modules like The Sunless Citadel appear to get right to the action, and that minimal description...

My group started in the 1980s with homebrew locations drawn on graph paper. A friend of mine and I shared DM duties through junior high and high school. After running The Throne of Bloodstone, I bought the 2e Waterdeep supplement (FR1). The first generation of characters consisted mostly of...

Yup, and, though I have been an avid D&D player off and on since the early 1980s, I spent little time following D&D on EN World. I spent most of my time here checking out Neverwinter Nights mods.

The rules are flexible. If "looseness" means that a DM has the discretion to substitute one skill check for another, no argument from me. As regards the meaning of the word "deduce," I agree that the PHB authors have the lexical or connotative definition in mind rather than a theoretical one...

I've been a member of EN World since 2006, but I wrote my first two posts today. I've neither run nor played in a session since D&D 3.5. Recently, I've been reading up on what a big hit 5e is, so I figured I'd stop in to learn more about it. I'm also delighted to see the deal Wizards of the...

I lecture at a top university in the United States. I started playing D&D in the early 1980s. One of the college classes I teach is Introduction to Logic. I'm still getting up to speed on 5e, but, prima facie, the Intelligence (Investigation) check reminds me of the deductive (absolutely...

My group ran a home brewed campaign for a few years in the mid-1980s. A friend of mine owned the Isle of Dread, and I tried to run it, but I was only 12 at the time and didn't have enough of a grasp of the rules. I bought H4 The Throne of Bloodstone shortly after it came out. "Bloodstone," as we...